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not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

we can't afford health care

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we can't afford health care

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not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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    This kind of misses the point, in the sense that reality is more depressing than what this suggests.

    It is not that the health care system is missing money because it’s being spent on the military. The US health care system is so inefficient, that if the US were to replace its system with any of the universal health care systems of industrialized nations, the savings would be enough to pay for the entire US military budget, while also vastly improving the quality of care.

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      Well yes, inefficiency of operation is the entire methodology of extracting the wealth

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    Those numbers seem to just be for the weapons. But it also costs a lot of money just in fuel and salaries to have those ships there at all.

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    There honestly needs to be a commercial that uses this concept that runs all day.

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    Meanwhile the USA is giving $3.8 billion dollars of military aid per year to Israel who in turn gives their citizens free healthcare and university education. How about we keep that money for our own health care an education and the Israelis can pay for their own military?

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    I like that just moving the torrette a few degrees costs more than my gas tank per week.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Why does it cost money for the turrets to move?

    • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.world
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      Electricity? Cost of just the ship as it operates?

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      Let’s put it this way: it costs money for them to move or not move.

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